Barbed-wire fence



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I. R. WHITEMAN.

BARB'ED WIRE PENGE.

No. 248,374. Pajented Oct. 18,1881.

l Wm- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ISRAEL R. WHITEMAN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS BARBED-\WIRE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 248,374, dated October19, 1881.

Application filed August 18, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISRAEL 1t. WHI'IEMAN, of Chicago, in the county ofCook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Barbed-Wire Fences, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to improvements in wire fences wherein one or m oreof the strands forming the cable is composed of short sections havingtheir ends pointed and thrown out at right angles to the line of thecable to form barbs; and my invention consists in uniting the shortpointed sections together by means of a short link or band, throughwhich the barbed ends of the said sections are thrust.

My invention will be more fully understood from the accompanyingdrawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure1 is a side elevation of a device embodyingmy invention; Fig. 2, asection on line 00 0c of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a detail plan view of theconnecting-link; and Fig. 4 is a detail plan view of one of the shortsections of pointed wire.

In the drawings, similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

A and A represent the strands of wire forming the barbed cable. Thestrand A is composed of short sections a, having pointed ends bent at anangle, so as to form barbs a at each end.

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b is the connecting-link, which is preferably stamped out of sheet metalor a flat wire strip, and is'provided with an oblong hole, b,in thecenter for the insertion of the sections a.

In constructing the sectional strand the barbs a of the two contiguoussections are thrust through the oblong hole I) in the connecting-link b,so as to project in opposite directions, when the link I) should begiven a blow on its edge, which will somewhat flatten the same andindent the wires, as shown in Fig. 2, thus securing the sectionstogether firmly.

The barbed sectional strand may be used alone, or it may be twisted withone or more similar strands, or plain wires, if preferred.

The link I) may be provided with a separate hole for each of thesections, if preferred, instead of one oblong hole, as shown.

What 1 claim is- The twisted-wire cable having one or more of itsstrands composed of pointed sections having their ends bent at an angleto form barbs, and united together by connecting-links, substantially asdescribed.

ISRAEL It. WHITEMAN.

Witnesses:

H. M. MUNDAY, T. EVERETT BROWN.

